This is very serious! From 1970s up until 1990s i was made aware of fundraising efforts by local groups and organizations in my city.
I wont mention which city but its in northern pa. As some of us know telsales pple reach us at all hours and it can get annoying!
To make along story short. I would just like to say there are companies and pple nationwide raising funds for different reasons, some are credible, some are not.
A few years back a friend of mine told me that a local police dept, was raising funds for their assn, well come to find out he and others were "hired" to solicit calls for local police depts and police depts in other cities nationwide. Seem they would hire a company to come to town for a few weeks and raise funds for the local fire and police depts...
Yes. Police depts hiring these so called companies to solicit local residences and businesses for money for their associations by telephoine and in person...
Little did these pple in the community know that a large percent of the money they were mailing or bringing to these local fire and police depts... Went to the callers... Commision basis.
These so called fundraisers go from town to town under the guise of local authorities and raise thousands and thousands. Of dollers of which the communities could put towards other things such as parks and recreation etc.
Any how. Be aware if you get a call saying its your local police or fire depts. Be careful... Why put money in the solicitors pockets? If you write a check for $50.00...$25.00 of it goes to the caller... Beware!
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